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It’s easy to look past things like sunlight and a shower when everything feels like it’s crumbling around you. But perhaps that’s the point.

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Ruth Clark
Jun 06, 2024
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The last few months have been a particularly odd kind of hard. They’ve been sad and angry and lonely, yet they’ve somehow been easier than the kind of hard I was experiencing before. I’ve traded one discomfort for another — and this discomfort has been preferable, my energy and aliveness being shored up instead of expended on a relationship that was fee…

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